Florida 2023 - Days 5 - 8
Lake Arbuckle Campground, Frostproof, Florida
Sat - Tues, 4 - 7 February 2023
Oliver’s Travels has been quiet the last few days due to us being in an area of south central Florida where cell coverage is spotty to say the least. I do most of my writing in the morning after my devotional, but our cell coverage in the campground alternates between one bar or no bars and this process is painful.
Saturday morning we got a little bit of time with Brian, McKalie and Mason before they departed for Jacksonville to see some of their Navy friends prior to flying home to Silverdale, Washington.
We departed St. Augustine Sunday morning and made our way to Frostproof, Florida for some business Frieda and I have had here for the last few days. Finding campgrounds this time of year in Florida is a challenge and we felt fortunate to find a spot at Lake Arbuckle Campground which is first-come, first-served.
There is a flock of female turkeys that walk about our campground. And there are lots of owls!
Monday night, Frieda and I watched the 8:32 pm launch of the SpaceX Hispasat Amazonas Nexus mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station about 70 miles from our campsite.
We were able to see the booster stage engine cutoff and separation as well as the second stage ignition and flight into space. The rocket was visible for much longer than I would have guessed and was definitely into space when we lost sight of it.
Here in Polk County, we are definitely in orange grove territory. Everywhere you look in Iowa you see corn and the same is true here except you see orange trees.
The thing that jumps out to me about orange trees is that they are not that big. One might argue that they are more like very large shrubs. I had hoped to see some of them being harvested as my understanding is that it’s done with ladders by hand.
Tomorrow we head even further south to Davie where we will spend a few days with Frieda’s mom.
